Brian McCabe is a Scottish writer, tutor and editor. He has held a number of fellowships both in Scotland and abroad, most recently a residence at the University of Edinburgh. He has published three collections of short stories, one novel ‘The Other McCoy’ (1991), and five volumes of poetry. His ‘Selected Stories’ was published in 2003.

From 2004 to 2011, Brian was the editor of The Edinburgh Review. As a creative writing tutor, he has worked at the universities of Lancaster, St. Andrews and Edinburgh. You can find out more about Brian’s writing, and see a full list of his publications, here.

Our Shore Poet this month is Jane McKie. Jane has written two collections of poetry: Morocco Rococo (Cinnamon Press), which won the Sundial/Scottish Arts Council award for best first book of 2007, and When the Sun Turns Green (Polygon, 2009). In 2011 McKie won the inaugural Edwin Morgan poetry prize. She runs a small press, Knucker Press, that encourages collaboration between artists and poets, and currently teaches on the MSc in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh.

Our new poet is Camilla Chen. Camilla is currently studying History of Art and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has performed her poetry in numerous places, and her success at the University of Edinburgh Literature Society Slams took her into the Scottish Poetry Slam Championship finals last year. She was also recently Highly Commended in the Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition.

To top things off, we’ll have traditional Scots songs from The Linties, our famous lemon cake raffle and of course, our Shore Poets Wildcard slot! Sign up on the door for a chance to read your poems on the night!